Something I’ve done for about a year now is mediate cases through the online mediation service SquareTrade. Most of these cases involve eBay disputes. SquareTrade is now seeking qualified mediators to add to its roster. Applicants must have had formal mediation training, usually 30 – 40 hours of ADR instruction, and have had…

The American Bar Association today released the results of its 2002 Legal Technology Survey, finding that U.S. lawyers’ use of technology is now nearly universal, with more than 98 percent of respondents saying that they use a computer for work-related tasks. The annual survey questioned more than 3,000 ABA members in private practice about…

A.M. Best’s Web site includes this Summary of Insurance Laws by State and Canadian Province. Written by law firms within each state, the summaries cover general insurance principles and leading court opinions.…

Ed Poll, nationally known management consultant, author and personal coach, has launched himself into the blogosphere with coachtolawyersblog.…

The Institute of Industrial Relations at the University of California, Berkeley, hosts The Labor and Employment Weblog. It launched in August, covering labor and employment issues throughout the world.…

Starting Sept. 22, the Network-Lawyers discussion list will do something it has never done before — host two, week-long online seminars. The two seminars will look at companion Web-based collaboration tools, QuickTopic during the week of Sept. 22 to 26, and QuickDocumentReview during the week of Oct. 6 to 10. Steve Yost,…

Law Practice Today, the monthly Webzine of the American Bar Association’s Law Practice Management Section, introduced a new look and new content this month. I like the new look, and I also like the special focus of this month’s issue — gadgets.…

Yesterday I mentioned Mathew Gross, Howard Dean’s staff blogger. Today, it was announced that he’s

been added as a presenter at the Oct. 4-5 BloggerCon.…

Jeffrey Beard, national practice group technology liaison at Quarles & Brady, Milwaukee, yesterday launched Lawtech Guru Blog. A well-known speaker and writer on legal technology, Jeff will be covering legal technology (of course), mobile devices, strategic planning and law practice management, Web technologies, as well as privacy and security issues and interesting blogging…

As more and more law firms launch Web logs, I’ve wondered whether they will begin to hire writers to maintain them. Along those lines, I found yesterday’s Boston Globe story, A hired gun who muses with fingertips, intriguing. It tells the story of Mathew Gross, 31, the former rock band drummer, Colorado River boatman,…

The Washington Business Journal reports today on the demise of Web sites devoted to providing online legal information in Failed Internet law sites guilty of too much optimism. The article features this quote from Brian Dunn, a professor at Santa Clara State University: “The Web wasn’t really the place for pet food or lawyers.”…

Ron Friedmann blogs a story I wrote for The American Lawyer about the 50 State HIPAA Privacy Study Web site developed by Reed Smith for the Healthcare Leadership Council. The full text of the story, Making Money Online (Finally), is on the Reed Smith site. Ron says: “I think that…